Cloud Computing, Security, and Privacy: Detailed Analysis and Review

This essay delves into the realm of cloud computing, elucidating its various facets, including cloud storage and different cloud types such as public, private, hybrid, and community clouds, along with their suitability for current businesses. It explores the fundamental concepts of cloud computing, which encompasses delivering services like computing power, databases, and storage via the internet. The essay further differentiates between security and privacy, emphasizing their significance in safeguarding data. It outlines the benefits of cloud computing, such as global deployment, elasticity, and cost savings. The core of the essay discusses the distinctions between security and privacy, highlighting the importance of protecting user identities and sensitive information from unauthorized access, ensuring data confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The essay also provides insights into achieving a secure and private cloud environment for businesses, including the use of strong passwords and other security measures. Finally, it concludes by summarizing the key takeaways, emphasizing the interconnectedness of cloud computing, security, and privacy, and the importance of protecting data and information.

INDIVIDUAL ESSAY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
1. Cloud computing, cloud storage and various types of cloud with their sustainability to
current business...........................................................................................................................3
2. The difference between security & privacy and the way of achieving company's cloud to be
secured and private......................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Digital age is a shift or the transformation from the industrial production to information
and computerisation and it can also be refer as the information age. It is a modern time when
most of the information is being digitised, as compare to that time, when computers were not
being used in high scale. How people interact with businesses and each other. This include the
different kind of skills that help an individual to become successful in their specific field. This
will describe the cloud computing and cloud storage. This file will further explain the different
types of the cloud with the suitability to current businesses. Lastly in this file difference between
privacy and security will be included and how to achieve cloud and company's cloud to be
private and secured.
MAIN BODY
1. Cloud computing, cloud storage and various types of cloud with their sustainability to current
business
Cloud computing is being refer to the delivery of the different services like computer
power, database, storage, application and other It resources with the help of the internet. Cloud
computing provide the access to the servers, storage, database and the broad set of the
application services on the internet (Stergiou and et.al., 2018). Some of the cloud services are
Amazon web services, own and maintains the hardware which is connected to the network,
require for the these application services. There are many benefits of the cloud computing such
as:
Deploy globally in minutes: Cloud help an individual to access their data and confidential
information from the multiple physical location around the world with in a click and minimum
time. It means it helps in providing a lower latency and better experience for the customers at
lowest cost.
Elasticity: with the help of the cloud, anyone can provision the number of the resources which is
actually needed, that can instantly increase or decrease the need of the businesses. This help to
reduce the cost and help in improving the ability to meet with the user's demand (Varghese and
Buyya, 2018).

Cost saving: Cloud helps the organisation by allowing trade capital expenses like data centres,
physical servers etc. for the different expenses and they only have to pay for IT on the basis of
the consumption.
Cloud computing take all the heavy lifting files and data away from the individual to
carry around and sit and work at. It also move all the data from the huge computer cluster far
away in the cyberspace. Cloud computing services can provide the different kind of services
which include the different function which are:
Email
Storage, backup and data retrieval
Analysing and testing apps
Analysing data
Audio and video streaming
Delivering software on demand
Cloud storage is the cloud computing model, where the data and informations re being
stored on the internet with the help of the cloud computing, this provider help to manage and
operate the data storage as a services. It is being delivered on the demand, with just in time
capacity and cost and also help to eliminating the buying and managing the data storage
infrastructure. This helps the organisation and individuals by providing agility, global scale and
durability, with any time and anywhere data access. As he clod storage is been purchased from
the third party cloud vendor, who is owner and help to operate data storage capacity and then
deliver it on the internet. These vendors also manage capacity, security and durability that help to
make data and information accessible on the application around the world at any time.
There are many benefits of using the cloud storage, from the number of benefits, file
accessibility is notable. Files which are stored in the cloud storage can be accessed any time at
any place but individual need to have internet access. Another benefit is that cloud storage
provide the off sites (remote) backup to the organisation which help to reduce the cost, which
associated with the disaster recovery of the data. Another advantages like usability and
bandwidth.
There are different kind of the cloud computing that enable the deployment of the
employee function in the cloud that help to response to the events.

Private cloud – Private cloud is that cloud infrastructure which is being operated by the single
organisation and weather manage internally by the third party and hosted either internally or
externally. To operate the private cloud in the organisation, projects require engagement to the
virtualise the business environment and required the organisation to re-evaluate decision about
the exiting resources.
Public Cloud- this is called the public cloud because the services are rendered over a network
which is open to the public use. Public cloud service are may be free for the public use. Public
cloud services providers such as Amazon web services, oracle, Microsoft and google own and
operate the infrastructure at their data centre and access via internet.
Hybrid Cloud – Hybrid cloud is the combination of the two or more clouds which is private,
community or public cloud services from the different services providers. Hybrid cloud allows
the one of the cloud to extend either the capacity or the capability.
Community Cloud: This type of cloud refers an infrastructure that are being shared by
organisations as they share their data & data management concerns. For instance, This type of
cloud can exist to a Government of a single country. Community cloud have both options and
can be located off premises and on premises (Langmead, B. and Nellore, 2018).
2. The difference between security & privacy and the way of achieving company's cloud to be
secured and private
Privacy refers to the protecting the identity of the user from the third part and from the
unauthorized access that can harm the identity of the user by accessing their personal
information. On the other hand security refer to the personal freedom from the external forces. It
mean that being free from the potential threats and danger. There is not much difference between
the privacy and security. As security provide the protection to all kind of the information and
data in any form top maintain the availability, confidentiality and integrity. Whereas privacy
make sure that the personal information and corporate information as well are collected,
processed and protected (Zhang and et.al., 2018).
Therefore it is always being recommended that to safeguard all the data and information
with a strong password with having different combination on the different websites which
require a login. All the security measures try to address an maintain the at least one of the three
goals:
Protecting the confidentiality

Preserving the integrity of information assets
Promoting availability of data and information
Privacy can be defined as having the ability to protect the confidential and sensitive data
and information regarding to the personally identifiable information. Privacy helps to block the
specific websites which consist the harmful content, and internet browser, cable companies and
the internet service provider that can track the information and can also hack the account to
access the information and data (Venkatesh and Eastaff, 2018).
Difference between Security and Privacy
Definition of security and privacy
As both are the interlinked with each other and can be used as the conjunction with each
other. Security can be refer as the being free from the unauthorized threats, on the other hand
privacy refers to the being free from the third party or unwanted attention.
Objective of the Security and Privacy
As the Privacy refers to the rights to the individual and organisation which are being
related to the personal information. And the main goal of the security is to confidentiality,
integrity and availability. Security means to protect information and data from the third party
access (Venkatesh and Eastaff, 2018).
Programs for Security and Privacy
A security program is set of protocols and regulations, which is set to protect the
confidential data and sensitive information related to the organisation. On the other hand
program of the privacy focus on the protecting the personal information like log in credentials,
passwords etc.
Principals of Security and Privacy
The three main principles of the security is to protecting confidential data and
information, preserving integrity of the information assets and also promoting availability of the
data. On the other hand privacy explain the rights of the individual and organisation with respect
to the personal information. For the some extent, privacy is being achieved with the security and
some times security depend on the privacy.
Dependency

Privacy and security go simultaneously. As the security can be achieved without the
privacy but privacy can not be achieved without the security. If security is weak for the some
confidential data, then it automatically affect the privacy (van Schaik and et.al., 2018).
CONCLUSION
From the above study it has been concluded that cloud computing is delivery of the
different services and provide the access to the users to store their data on the cloud via internet.
Whereas cloud storage is the model of the cloud computing. It also been analyse that privacy and
security are interlinked with each other. Security refers to the protecting the data and files,
privacy refers to the safeguarding of the personal information from the third part access or the
unauthorized access that can harm the individual and organisation with their critical and personal
data.

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